JOHN JACOBSON

“Sitting at the top tier of American science are the members of the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary organization that elects only the most accomplished researchers in the United States. And here nonbelief is the rule: 93 percent of the members are atheists or agnostics, with only 7 percent believing in a personal god. This is almost the exact opposite of the data for “average” Americans.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. —ISAAC ASIMOV, THE RELATIVITY OF WRONG, 1989”
― Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. —Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“As Upton Sinclair famously observed: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”36”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate